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CG Today - Spanish audiovisual Spanish audiovisual exports to the Asian market have risen by some 75 per cent on year led by the animation segment, where demand is booming thanks to a mushrooming of Asian markets.

The appeal of international animations in Asia has been fuelling growth at Spanish production houses.

Industry players said that Asia is still niche for Spanish distributors but it is a very fast-growing market.

Asia currently accounts for 6.8 per cent of the overall sales pie for Spain - that is expected to increase to 10 to 12 per cent in the next two years.

CG Today Disney Television Disney Television Animation has reeled in a second-season pick-up of Disney Channel’s animated comedy series “Fish Hooks” and an order for a new animated Disney Channel comedy series, “Gravity Falls,” each creator-driven series from noteworthy storytellers Noah Z. Jones and Alex Hirsch. The announcement was made today by Eric Coleman, Senior Vice President, Original Series, Disney Television Animation.

The Mass Communication Department, Loyola Academy, Alwal, Secunderabad, is all set to roll the three-day all-India students' film festival “In Focus” from December 7, 2010. Entries have been received from 60 Mass Communication Departments of educational institutions across the country.

The man who is suing DreamWorks Animation claiming it stole his idea for Kung Fu Panda has won a small victory in his multi-million dollar lawsuit against the company.

Terence Dunn, a self-described "writer-producer-teacher-philosopher," filed suit in June claiming that he pitched the story of a "spiritual kung-fu fighting panda bear" to DWA execs during a series of phone conversations in Nov. 2001 but the studio passed.

Film Produced by Toonz Animation, screened at Kalabhavan on 5th Dec 2010

 

Trivandrum, December 5, 2010 International Film Festival of Kerala - IFFK signature feature film titled "DREAMS" was released at Kalabhavan theatre today by Hon Minister for Transport, Jose Thettayil. 

The film well received across the audience was a 30 second animated film conceived and developed by Toonz Animation. The signature film portrays the generation of ideas incubated in cocoons drawing inspiration from water and land and merging into the final form of the puppet logo of the IFFK in the largest screen – SKY.